Essays about: "-disadvantages of civilisation"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 33 essays containing the words -disadvantages of civilisation.
-
1. Voices Once Lost : on Connexions in nineteenth century Swedish Geaticism
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Historiska institutionenAbstract : This thesis studies how the early nineteenth century periodical Iduna, published by the influential Geatish Society from 1811 until 1844, portrayed and shaped their idea of Sweden’s past. Of particular interest to this thesis is how this past was narrated through the use of emotions and how these emotions functioned. READ MORE
-
2. Simulations of the Tenuous Upper Atmospheres of Exoplanets
University essay from Lunds universitet/Astrofysik; Lunds universitet/Fysiska institutionenAbstract : Over the last decade, the interest in research on extraterrestrial planets has expanded dramatically. With the number of confirmed exoplanets having increased tenfold over the last ten years, we now know that many different types of exoplanets exist. READ MORE
-
3. Body-Safe Apocalypse : Sexual Materiality and Frameworks for Design During and Beyond Collapse
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för design (DE)Abstract : Following the Covid-19 pandemic, a relatively mild global disruption, our global society experienced large-scale shortages of high-tech materials, the increasing cost or absence of many commodities usually taken for granted, and the floundering of industries that facilitate our global industrial civilisation such as shipping and aviation. By comparison, catastrophic climate change stands to be far more devastating. READ MORE
-
4. 'Oumuamua : An analysis of the the debate regarding the first interstellar visitor
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teoretisk astrofysikAbstract : In the year of 2017 in October a strange object with a hyperbolic trajectory was observed in our solar system. There were several hypotheses that scientists used to try to explain what kind of an object it was, but no one could, according to the scientific community as a whole, perpetuate any of these explanations as accepted consensus. READ MORE
-
5. “In Every Wood in Every Spring There is a Different Green” : An Independent Project in Literature on The Ecocritical Dialogue and Carnivalesque Aspects of J. R. R. Tolkien’s Legendarium
University essay from Mittuniversitetet/Institutionen för humaniora och samhällsvetenskapAbstract : Tolkien’s Middle Earth is characterised by the conflict between the forces of good, often represented as guardians of nature juxtaposed to the forces of evil, marked by a voracious edacity for a nature destroying industry. In fact, the second volume of the LotR deals with Saruman’s war against nature. READ MORE
